Akiko Morishita Program-Specific Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University -Academic Qualifications: Ph.D. (area studies) Kyoto University 2006 -Research Interests: Politics and Resources in Southeast Asia My current research interest is politics and resources in Southeast Asia. During this fellowship, I would like to explore the political dynamics of forest exploitation and management in Indonesia and Malaysia from local, national, and global perspectives. In my Ph.D. dissertation, I explored the local political structures in resource-rich Kalimantan in post-Soeharto Indonesia where decentralization and devolution of power over resources dramatically altered the role and function of local authorities. In my postdoctoral research, I expanded my analysis to center-local relations over natural […]

Program-Specific Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University -Academic Qualifications: PhD (History), Murdoch University 2009 -Research Interests: Disasters in history, Singapore and Malayan history (postwar, colonial), Urban social history, Squatters and slum dwellers, History of medicine, Oral history ; memory, Student activism, Archival access -URL: http://lkshistory.wordpress.com/ Loh Kah Seng’s research investigates little-studied subjects in the social and cultural history of Singapore and Malaysia and explores linkages between the past and the present in public history, oral history, social memory, and heritage. He is author of two books, “Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia” (SIRD 2009) and “The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History” […]

Program-Specific Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University -Academic Qualifications: Ph.D., Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University 2010-Research Interests: Labour issue in developing countries, Popular culture and East Asian modernities, Chinese in Southeast Asia, Legal history in post-colonial societies I graduated from Graduate School of Asia and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University in February 2010. My thesis describes the formation and development of state-labour relationships in Indonesia from a historical perspective, by examining how workers had formed and structured their organizations during the years of 1945-1948, the very peak of the Indonesian revolutionary period. My current research topic is […]